A sketch of a Connemara laborer by nineteenth-century artist Henry Coulter.

Nicholas Wolf

Data + History

Projects

The masthead from the newspaper An Gaodhal with the newspaper's name rendered in ornate lettering.

An Gaodhal Newspaper Project

 A projected conducted between 2023 and 2026 to train an OCR model for recognizing 19th-century cló-Gaelach font and older Irish-language spellings for the purposes of extracting full text from the world's first newspaper published predominantly in Irish.
Ledger page from the account books of Brown Bros of New York from the 19th century.

Brown Brothers Ledger Transcription Project

 OCR project using machine learning and crowd-sourced transcription focused on the account records of the nineteenth-century Brown Brothers banking firm.

Irish Language and National Schools Project.

National School System and the Irish Language

 R scripts, codebook, data, and reproducibility file for plots used in the article "The National School System and the Irish Language in the Nineteenth Century," published as part of the 2015 Heaney Lecture Proceedings, Dublin City University/St. Patrick's College by Four Courts Press.
A detail image of the city of New York, consisting of lower Manhattan, taken from a NYC directory published in 1874.

New York City Directories Extracted Persons Entries, 1850-1890

 A collaborative project to extract nearly 8 million persons and business entries from the nineteenth-century New York City directories.

Cover of An Irish-Speaking Island Book Publication.

An Irish-Speaking Island (2014)

 A study of the cultural dimensions of language shift and language contact in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this book was awarded the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book and the Michael J. Durkan Prize for Books on Language and Culture by the American Conference for Irish Studies.